Boca and River define themselves for the superclásico: What are Demichelis and Almirón thinking?

Without continental competition until next year, River face the Super classic as a relaunch platform, which can consolidate it in the qualification zone for the quarterfinals of the LPF Cup and project it in the fight for the title.

River: the variants that Demichelis evaluates to face Boca in the superclassic

The River Plate coach, Martín Demichelis, carried out tactical tests this Friday with the return of three starters, Leandro González Pírez, Nicolás De la Cruz and Enzo Pérezand with the surprise of Andres Herrera to play against Boca, in the stadium candy box, for the seventh date of the Professional League Cup. The surprise is the departure of Milton Casco, who rested the weekend to be in this match, the loss of Santiago Simón and the return of Gonzalez Pirezwho hasn’t played for almost two months.

As for the rest of the team and in relation to the match against Banfield, Miguel Borja returns for the Venezuelan striker Salomón Rondón, Enzo Pérez for Matías Kranevitter and De la Cruz for Pablo Solari, so there would be a total of five changes for the superclassic. Therefore, the possible team I would go with Franco Armani; Andrés Herrera, Leandro González Pirez, Paulo Díaz and Enzo Díaz; Enzo Pérez, Nicolás de La Cruz, Manuel Lanzini and Ignacio Fernández; Esequiel Barco and Miguel Borja.

Demichelis has to decide tomorrow the list of concentrates and they will be part of the substitute bench since Casco, Enzo Pérez and De la Cruz will join, in addition to the youth Claudio Echeverri having a chance, so several of the names that were mentioned against Banfield will not be able to play this Sunday .

Almirón gathered all the Boca starters for the superclásico

The Boca coach, Jorge Almirón included all the starters in the list of concentrates to face this Sunday’s superclásico against River, despite the fact that in a few more days they will have to play the rematch against Palmeiras of Brazil, for one of the semifinals of the Copa Libertadores. After the goalless draw the day before against the São Paulo team, Almirón was supposed to save players; howeverincluded all those who played that match to receive Riverwithin the framework of the seventh date of the League Cup.

Captain Marcos Rojo was in doubt, after having suffered a muscle discomfort, but was included in the roster, although his presence in the classic has not yet been confirmed. They are going through a similar situation Guillermo Fernández, Cristian Medina and Valentín Barco, who also ended up with some discomfort after the match against Palmeiras. Meanwhile, the defender returns to the list of summonses Facundo Roncaglia, with little filming in recent months, while Vicente Taborda, Norberto Briasco and Luca Langoni were left outthe latter injured.

The list of those called up is made up of Sergio Romero and Javier García (goalkeepers); Marcelo Weigandt, Lucas Blondel, Luis Advíncula, Bruno Valdez, Nicolás Figal, Nicolás Valentini, Marcos Rojo, Maecelo Saracchi and Frank Fabra (defenders). Guillermo Fernández, Cristian Medina, Ezequiel Fernández, Valentín Barco, Jorman Campuzano, Ezequiel Bullaude and Juan Ramírez (midfielders) were also mentioned; Exequiel Zeballos, Lucas Janson, Edinson Cavani, Miguel Merentiel and Darío Benedetto (forwards).

A possible alignment Romero would integrate it; Blondel, Figal, Valentini and Saracchi; Advíncula, Campuzano and Bullaude; Zeballos, Benedetto and Janson.